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Hands On With The Seven Best Fantasy Football Sites And Apps
Aug 30, 3:15AM
With the NFL season just a week away, fans are pouring over stats, trash talking their friends, and gearing up for the real season: fantasy football. Here are the coolest and most useful places to play fantasy football out there—from the household names like ESPN to a small startup that's doing fantasy exclusively on your phone.Pure Storage Raises $150M And Sets For Battle With The Storage Giants
Aug 30, 1:20AM
Pure Storage has raised $150 million for its super-fast and feature-rich flash storage technology. The round was led by T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management and "other public market investors," along with participation from previous investors Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures. The new funding brings the company's total capital raise to $245 million. The company said in its announcement that the funding puts it on track to pursue an IPO.Salesforce Beats Estimates With $957M In Revenues, Earnings 9 Cents Per Share
Aug 30, 12:11AM
Salesforce.com beat estimated earnings, posting $957 million in revenues, a 31 percent increase compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings were 9 cents per share. Subscription and support revenues were $903 million, also a 31 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. Salesforce projects its revenues to top $4 billion for the 2014 fiscal year. In 2013, it posted $3 billion in revenues. In 2012, revenues were $2.2 billion. The company posted its first billion-dollar year in the 2010 fiscal year with $1.3 billion in revenues.>From The Experts To You, Six Fantasy Football Tools For Total Domination
Aug 30, 12:09AM
Yes. Fantasy football season is upon us. Amid a sea of apps and sites promising to get you a little closer to perfection, I turned to some of 2012's most accurate fantasy experts to get their take on which online tools you actually need to be using when you're quietly researching your lineup at work. As fantasy sports have moved into the digital age, there aren't many people scanning newspapers with a pencil in hand anymore. But you know what? A lot of these guys still rock it old school to an extent. FF Toolbox writer Shawn Larabee watches tons of game footage in addition to doing online research. Jody Smith, a senior writer at Gridiron Experts, suggests opening a magazine every now and again. They're not the type to buy into hype.Snowden Leaks $52 Billion Intelligence Budget, Reveals "Offensive Cyber Operations"
Aug 29, 9:50PM
National Security Agency leaker and new Russia resident Edward Snowden has leaked a top-secret $52 billion intelligence budget to the Washington Post. The partially redacted budget reveals the successes and shortcomings of the United States' sprawling intelligence apparatus, as well as the justifications for top-line budget items.Remote Work Collaboration Startup Sqwiggle Closes On $1.1M In AngelList's First Syndicate Round
Aug 29, 8:52PM
Working from the couch in sweatpants is awesome (in fact, I'm doing it right now), but there are certainly benefits to working with other people in the flesh. For example, if you can see that your coworker is at her desk, you don't have to preface a quick question with, "You there?" Little things like that can really make all the difference when it comes to collaborating naturally and getting good work done. Sqwiggle, a startup that makes a web application that aims to close that communication gap between remote workers, has just closed on $1.1 million in a brand new seed funding round. We've written about the San Francisco-based Sqwiggle before, but in light of the new million dollar boost I thought it was a good idea to bring a couple of the company's co-founders into the studio to see the app in person. Check that out in the video embedded above.Digg (And Digg Reader) Arrive On Android
Aug 29, 8:44PM
Digg, the Betaworks-incubated social news service and new home to Google Reader replacement Digg Reader, has just arrived on Android, the company announced today. Included in this release are all the stories you would find on the Digg.com homepage, Digg Reader, as well as integrations with over a half dozen other services including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ and more.Here's Why Microsoft Coming To Foursquare's Salvation Might Make Sense
Aug 29, 8:12PM
Rumors that Foursquare is looking to take on a strategic investment from a large technology company kicked up a gear when several sources have reported that Microsoft is perhaps the potential suitor, and, to quote Dina Bass of Bloomberg, the talks are “advanced.” What the hell, you might be thinking, does Microsoft want with Foursquare? It’s not application support for its platforms, that’s already a done deal. Instead, I think that the investment is being considered for the same reason that Microsoft pumped hundreds of millions into Facebook: Bing. By buying into Facebook as its only corporate investor, Microsoft has locked up a long-term deal to provide mapping and search capabilities for the social giant. Snagging a chunk of Foursquare is pro-Bing, albeit in a different fashion. Bing competes with Google and Apple to provide local data, and mapping. The two domains are increasingly overlapping as mobile maps become increasingly multifaceted and less about directions, and more about how to live. Bing, of course, on Windows Phone has Local Scout, a tool that combines geolocation and local business information. Foursquare fits into this by simply having data that Microsoft wants. The startup has spent years accreting information from its users about more than restaurants, hotels, houses, and everything in between. Back that into Bing and it could enrich its offering perhaps past what Google proffers to mobile users. Bing already uses Foursquare data. That is the reason I think that Microsoft is interested in the stuff: It knows its value. Also, it would hate to see the inflow stop (if Facebook died), or other parties buy it (Yahoo, etc) and cut off its access. The move is a combination of offense and defense. Yahoo, of course, leans on Bing for the moment to power its search technology, but that might not be the case in a year’s time. This would improve the user experience of Windows 8, 8.1, Windows Phone 8, and the online desktop Bing experience. Now, why not buy Foursquare outright? I don’t think that Microsoft has to. Foursquare’s last round valued the firm at $600 million. Investors would want a premium, and Microsoft has cash. It would not be a cheap acquisition, even given Foursquare current weaknesses. But with say, $50 million, Microsoft could bail Foursquare out of its most recent loans, and inject enough capital for it to prove a revenue-fueled future. Microsoft gets access toAnki, Nest, Shasta, And Skycatch To Discuss The Present And Future Of Robotics At Disrupt SF
Aug 29, 7:51PM
Next up on the agenda for Disrupt SF: Robots! Now, when I bring up robots, you may be thinking about C-3PO from Star Wars, or Rosie, the maid from The Jetsons, or something else entirely. But I'm guessing that we've got something similar in mind — a machine that looks and acts kind of like a human being, something that's still years in the future at best. But after a discussion with Rob Coneybeer, co-founder of Shasta Ventures, we started to think about the ways that robots, or robot-type devices, are already starting to infiltrate our lives: Industrial robots, robotic vehicles, robotic devices in the home, and more.With Sinofsky On Board, Box Is Now Capable Of Mounting The First Credible Threat To Office
Aug 29, 7:50PM
Box has an enviable enterprise install base, a key strategic advantage as being The Holder of the Files, and now the exec that called the Office shots at Microsoft for years. That sums together into an enterprise-facing productivity solution, in my view. Box is going public in short order. To tell investors that it has a new product coming that will help preserve its margins would be welcome.Lodgify Launches Its Build-Your-Own Solution For Vacation Rental Websites And Listings
Aug 29, 7:44PM
Barcelona-based startup Lodgify is launching its product today, which aims to be the "Shopify of vacation rentals" according to its co-founder Naveen Sharma. Like Shopify, Lodgify allows small business owners to easily set up an online commerce presence – but this time the target is people who are renting out their homes to vacationers and short-term renters.Flickr Grows Post-Relaunch, Tumblr Now 7.2% Of Site's Referral Traffic
Aug 29, 7:32PM
Yahoo's efforts at improving Flickr with new pricing plans, acquisitions, and revamped web and mobile experiences, appear to be paying off, at least in the form of website traffic and engagement. According to a new report from SimilarWeb, visits to Flickr have been increasing steadily, and are now up by 38 percent since April.Deliv Partners With Mall Operator GGP To Enable Same-Day Deliveries From Its Stores
Aug 29, 7:00PM
Peer-to-peer delivery startup Deliv wants to provide a new way for major retailers to offer up same-day delivery to their customers. And it just partnered with one of the biggest mall operators in the country, General Growth Properties, to begin making that vision a reality.Three Months After Being Banned From The App Store, Bang With Friends Returns As "Down"
Aug 29, 6:30PM
They're baaack. Bang With Friends, the Facebook friend hookup app that seemed to be endlessly engulfed in one controversy or another earlier this year, is returning to the iOS App Store (albeit in a slightly toned down form) after gettin' the boot back in May.Bug In Apple's CoreText Allows Specific String Of Characters To Crash iOS 6, OS X 10.8 Apps
Aug 29, 5:56PM
A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger the bug — which was discovered yesterday and has spread around the hacking and coding community — has made its way to Twitter, where even looking at it in your timeline will crash the app. The issue affects apps on iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 but does not work on OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 beta releases. So whatever bug the characters are triggering, they’ve already been fixed in future releases of the engine. This doesn’t help anyone still on iOS 6 of course. Because it’s a CoreText bug, any apps that access this font framework to render text are affected. This means that any apps that use WebKit like Safari are also affected because WebKit uses CoreText. This is a picture of the string of characters, not replicated here for obvious reasons: If you’d care to experience the bug for yourself, feel free to seek out the tweet in the pic above, I’m not posting a link. For the record: Tweetbot appears to be immune to this, though it also uses the CoreText engine. The characters were discovered and posted on a Russian site yesterday morning. The site claims that Apple has known about the problem for ‘six months’ and has not reacted. There is some evidence of the string appearing on Twitter back in February. The posting includes a request to click the crash report button on any apps affected and report it to Apple. The malicious possibilities are simple: if you send the characters in an SMS, it can initiate a revolving crash of Messages on both OS X and iOS. We confirmed this on both operating systems. You can also deliver the string of text via a web link. You could also change the name of a wireless network to the characters and it will crash any device that scans that network to connect. That being said, this is an extremely specific set of unicode characters, so the possibilities of accidentally coming across it are nil. Unfortunately, once this stuff is out in the wild, it’s all down to who has the knowhow and will to try to use it to annoy or offend. Looks like Facebook hasWith Its Flickr iOS Update, Yahoo Swaps Out Aviary For Newly Acquired GhostBird Tech; Says It's Keeping It On The Web
Aug 29, 5:12PM
Earlier today, a new iOS update landed for Flickr that sports new, enhanced filters and other photo editing options among its new features, and when I wrote about it I wondered aloud if it was the first signs of a speedy integration of GhostBird, a photo app developer that Yahoo acquired in June of this year. Turns out this was right. And it also turns out that, as a result, Yahoo is dropping Aviary as a technology provider on its mobile app, although for now it is keeping Aviary in its web app.Lyft Launches Its Ride-Sharing Service In 3 New Markets: Indianapolis, St. Paul, And Atlanta
Aug 29, 5:00PM
Ride-sharing startup Lyft continues to grow, adding new markets where users can hail a ride via their mobile phones and have a mustachioed car pick them up. With the launch of service in Indianapolis, St. Paul, and Atlanta, the company now has operations in 10 markets nationwide.Greylock Promotes EIR And Former eBay Motors Founder Simon Rothman To Partner; Commits $100M To Invest In Marketplaces
Aug 29, 5:00PM
After promoting former Facebook and Twitter product lead Josh Elman to partner, Greylock is adding another consumer investing partner to its ranks from its existing team--executive in residence Simon Rothman. And as part of this move, Greylock is announcing a $100 million commitment to invest in marketplace entrepreneurs and companies, which Rothman will be managing.Doo Releases iPhone App For Its Paperwork-Killing Platform
Aug 29, 4:45PM
Back in 2011 Doo closed a $6.8 million round for its big play to attack the world of collaboration and documents. Basically they want to kill off paperwork and make everything digital. To that end they have released an Android app earlier this year and today they have launched their iPhone version, you can download it here.Steven Sinofsky Joins Enterprise Cloud Storage Firm Box As An Official Adviser
Aug 29, 4:15PM
Today enterprise cloud file and document storage company Box announced that it has brought former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky on board as an adviser. The move matters, as Sinofsky has deep experience with both Microsoft Office and SkyDrive, two products that Box competes with. Box, which today remains storage focused, is widely expected to introduce document editing tools on top of its cloud file system. This would put it in direct contention with Office, a key profit source for Microsoft, and Google's Docs efforts.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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